Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.